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State officials’ acknowledgment of “age-appropriateness” should certainly assuage any remaining parental fears, even the President himself recognizes the need for “age-appropriate” curriculum. After all, he personally selected Kevin Jennings as Safe-Schools Czar with this very issue in mind. Jennings understands the delicate balance between respect for childhood innocence and fomenting adolescent lust which is precisely why he waited until children were 14 to tell them how to properly “fist“ someone. That level of moral discernment should dispel any residual concern about educational intent. Likewise, no parent should doubt whether children need this instruction. Of course they do.
After all, children will have sex. It’s an inevitability. We should give these little sexual beings all the tools necessary to make informed decisions, the younger the better! To deny their sexuality almost seems, I don’t know, a hostile act against their personhood—a bourgeois power play, even. Perhaps a history lesson (content warning) from Germany would be instructive:
Sexual liberation was at the top of the agenda of the young revolutionaries who, in 1967, began turning society upside down. The control of sexual desire was seen as an instrument of domination, which bourgeois society used to uphold its power. Everything that the innovators perceived as wrong and harmful has its origins in this concept: man’s aggression, greed and desire to own things, as well as his willingness to submit to authority. The student radicals believed that only those who liberated themselves from sexual repression could be truly free.
To them, it seemed obvious that liberation should begin at an early age. Once sexual inhibitions had taken root, they reasoned, everything that followed was merely the treatment of symptoms. They were convinced that it was much better to prevent those inhibitions from developing in the first place. Hardly any leftist texts of the day did not address the subject of sexuality.
For instance, “Revolution der Erziehung” (“The Revolution in Education”), a work published by Rowohlt in 1971, which quickly became a bestseller, addresses sexuality as follows: “The de-eroticization of family life, from the prohibition of sexual activity among children to the taboo of incest, serves as preparation for total assimilation — as preparation for the hostile treatment of sexual pleasure in school and voluntary subjugation to a dehumanizing labor system.
Well, maybe that’s a tad extreme. Admittedly, European leftists really went that extra mile. No worries, though. American culture and educational philosophy is quite impervious to European influence. No similarities at all, moms and dads!
You can sleep soundly knowing the State will tenaciously, relentlessly seek out pioneering new ways to do more age-appropriate things to more children, earlier…with or without your consent.
Trust them.
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h/t to Halestorm and RickSheridan for the odd UPI news story at the top of the article.
Originally posted at Hot Air’s Green Room.
